The declining value of Liz Truss
For someone who crashed the economy in 49 days in the autumn of 2022 Liz Truss remains omnipresent. Her most recent image was posted on Easter Sunday standing outside a derelict rural church clutching a lamb.
Yet the more she appears the less her value is it seems.
In 2023 she made £300,000 from speeches mostly outside of the UK (she is paid £87,000 to do her actual job as an MP)
In February 2023 she spoke in Mumbai and was paid £65,751
In March 2023 she spoke in Tokyo and was paid £6,443
In May 2023 she was in Taiwan for a 4 hour event for which she got £80,000
In June 2023 she pocketed a total of £64,000 for speaking in Switzerland and Dublin
In October 2023 (presumably after a summer holiday) she got £32,000 for speaking in Houston and Washington
In December 2023 she was paid £30,000 for speaking at a conference in London, a very rare home fixture
Yet in February 2024 according to the Daily Mirror she spent most of the month in the US but accrued ‘only’ £32,000 for appearing at a number of events.
It would appear that the more Truss speaks the less she is worth. For those who had to put up with her in 2022 that does make sense
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